The NSW Police Brutality Fund

As part of his relentless commitment to fucking up everything he touches, last week Chris Minns floated the idea of giving NSW Police the power to ban the weekly pro-Palestine protests in the Sydney CBD if they cost the state too much money.

Speaking to 2GB, the official state apparatus where NSW premiers go to ritually humiliate themselves, Minns claimed the rallies have cost over $5.4 million since October 2023 and that this constituted “a huge drain on the public purse”.

Like his short-lived pledge that the rally on October 6 was “not going to happen,” Minns immediately had to walk the idea back after members of his own Labor caucus and several trade unions called it anti-democratic and unworkable. Somehow, Minns even pissed off the head of the police union, who took exception to Minns’ wildly untrue claim that the protests meant “police potentially weren’t responding to other types of crime”.